This article will explain the yearly flow of the Flying Stars in Feng Shui. These ‘Stars’ are magnetic energies said to be flowing through and around the earth. These energies flow from 360⁰   And based on an actual compass reading using magnetic North as a guidepost. This pattern for a building is determined by the sitting and facing directions of the structure. A formula allows this pattern to also be applied to a human birth chart.

The 8 Mansion chart is a subdivision of this larger picture of the 360⁰. It is the 8 Mansions for the year 2016 we will discuss in this article. This chart with 8 subdivisions is shown below and commonly referred to as the Bagua or Magic Square.

Your home has a so-called “birth chart” based on when it was built and how it sits in the land. These aspects do not change, but, since the earth is constantly moving through space and time, your home or office is therefore subject to the changes in magnetic energy influenced by this movement. Thus, each month, day, hour and even minute, there are different energies. For the fanatic, one might look at all these aspects for one’s home, office, town, county, country, hemisphere… do you get the picture? This article addresses the yearly stars and you can decide how deeply you would like to investigate your surroundings.

The graphic to the left is the 8 Mansions chart for 2016. The most notable feature is the axis of Earth stars from North East to South West. Of these three stars, 2 and 5 are quite inauspicious. The most important star in any yearly make-up is the star in the center. This year, it is the Black 2 which portends illness. This is not advantageous. The deadly Yellow 5 star of misfortune falls in the North East this year. Precautions in these sectors are called for. Happily, the fortunate 8 star falls in the South West this year. As a general rule you will place cures for the inauspicious stars and enhance the fortunate ones.

General Principles

As a rule, one would place cures first then enhancements. If you have objects, plants, paintings etc. you have used in the past, remove them from their place, clean them and then replace them either in the same place, or another spot indicated by the new year. Ideally, this is done before the Solar New Year, February 4, 2016 but anytime is better than not at all. As most of you know, I prescribe a variety of cures and enhancements. I do NOT believe that only Chinese Daoist or Buddhist cures are effective. I believe that once one understands the basic premise of the energy that a homeowner may use objects, colors, paintings etc. which are in keeping with one’s own personal beliefs to attract different energies to effect a cure for misfortune. The idea is to use objects or colors which will attract a certain energy which will balance noxious energies or enhance auspicious ones. You are much better served with something you love and feel a connection to instead of adopting a cultural icon to which you have no connection.

RANT: There are some prognosticators who preach gloom and doom only try to sell very expensive so-called “cures” without which, you are assured, you will experience anything from minor mishaps to death. While I have experienced over and over the accuracy and potency of the Chinese cosmology, I also believe that intent, consciousness and caution trump a well-placed trinket. Heed the warnings. All cures attract the needed energies to abate otherwise noxious energy. Follow your intuition and instincts for your personal space.

My favorite, industrial-strength cure for negative energies is the Salt Cure. This device will pull unwanted energies from a room. They are pennines to make (pun intended because you use pennies!) and they must be replaced each year. Directions for making them are here.

As for other cures, details are listed below, sector by sector.  These remedies may shift slightly depending on the home’s “Birth Chart”. If your house faces any of the inauspicious directions, extra caution should be taken. The same is true if a bedroom is in any of the inauspicious directions for the year. Depending on the dwelling’s chart, these influences can be better or worse. Refer to own your home’s drawing.

Inauspicious
NOTE: Listed as “Traditional” Cures or enhancements are those Chinese objects prescribed in traditional Feng Shui.

Auspicious:
NOTE: for auspicious energy, an enhancement is prescribed instead of a cure.